Interface[s] Montréal

Telemanipulation and Robotics

Bill Vorn

Concordia University, Department of Studio Arts

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Bill Vorn is working in the field of Robotic Art since 1992. His installation projects involve robotics and motion control, sound, lighting, video and cybernetic processes. He pursues research on Artificial Life and Robotics through artistic work based on the “Aesthetics of Artificial Behaviors”. He received a Ph.D. degree in Communication Studies from UQAM (Montreal) for his thesis on “Artificial Life as a Media”. He currently teaches Electronic Arts in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University where he is responsible of the A-Lab, a Robotic Art research lab. He is also an active member of the Hexagram Institute and interim chair for Studio Arts. His work has been presented in many international events, including Ars Electronica, ISEA, DEAF, Sonar, Art Futura, EMAF and Artec. He has been awarded the Life 2.0 award (1999, Madrid), the Leprecon Award for Interactivity (1998, New York), the Prix Ars Electronica Distinction award (1996, Linz) and the International Digital Media Award (1996, Toronto). He has worked in collaboration with many canadian artists (including Edouard Lock, Robert Lepage, Gilles Maheu, Monty Cantsin and LP Demers).

Robographie
• Rotoscopic Machines, interactive robotic installation (2005)
• Evil / Live 3, interactive sound & light installation (2004)
• Bedlam, interactive telerobotic installation (2003)
• Pre-Hysterical Machine, interactive robotic installation (2002)
• Stèle 01, interactive robotic multimedia installation (2002)
• Evil / Live 2, interactive sound & light installation (2002)
• Le Procès, an entirely robotic performance project (1999)
• Lost Referential, interactive sound & light installation (1998)
• La Cour des Miracles, interactive robotic multimedia installation (1997)
• Evil / Live, interactive sound & light installation (1997)
• No Man’s Land, interactive robotic multimedia installation (1996)
• The Frenchman Lake, interactive robotic multimedia installation (1995)
• At the Edge of Chaos, interactive robotic multimedia installation (1995)
• Espace Vectoriel, interactive robotic multimedia installation (1993)
• Sacred Noise & Profanation, interactive sound & light installation (1993)

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